What’s the basis for such an appointment? It could not be competence because he has proven as BuCor chief to be clueless about his job.
He said his understanding of his job was just policy-making and he refused to take command responsibility for the violation of his subordinate for allowing former Batangas Governor Antonio Leviste, in prison for the 2007 killing of his business associate Rafael de las Alas, to go out of the jail accompanied by fellow inmates.
Diokno also considered the practice of prisoners living out a “small matter.”
Aquino praised Diokno for his ‘delicadeza’. But Diokno resigned, almost two weeks after the Leviste caper was exposed, because despite the fact that the Department of Justice, in deference to his friendship with the President, treaded gingerly in the investigation of his role in prison scandal, it still recommended administrative charges against him. He was cleared of any criminal lapses.
Is that ‘delicadeza’?
I need to review my understanding of ‘delicadeza.’
It’s unbelievable to be a director of government agency NOT to know that a Director is the equivalent of chief executive officer (CEO) in the private sector. As director of private or government agency you direct, you don’t make policies. To direct is a command function, making policies is a staff function like those working in policy and planning offices. Policies had already been made for directors. Anybody can get from Civil Service Commission a statement of functions, duties and responsibilities of a bureau director. NO policy making there. Only policy interpretation and execution. Office policies are really nothing but office rules and regulations. You can call white color black, it will still be white. Directors can not by any means exculpate themselves from command responsibility. What is funny and really laughable is that the Department of Justice and Congress (and some in the critical media) have no clues at all.
It is downright impossible to have become a police general or military general NOT to know the sequential concepts of law, policy, programs, projects, activities, tasks, motion, rules and regulations. Directors do not, repeat do not make policies, they interpret policies into rules and regulations and execute them. Higher offices formulates policies for them. Who makes policies of eating out or living out for prisoners. Policies should have been made at higher than the director’s level. Directors translate policies established from above into action. I am repetitive to be understood.
Onli en da Pilipins. That why generals of foreign countries laugh at our generals. P Noy knows but he needs a little insensitivity to bungling friends; the people know P Noy knows that their ignorance is nothing but dishonest pretense. So P Noy gets whacks in the surveys because of his inappropriate response.
MMDA people should know that unlike regulations, rules allow no exception or exemptions. Examples of rules: NO SMOKING. NO LEFT TURN. Sabi ng Lola ko dahil lang sa kunting halaga kailan pa tayo magiging tapat sa ating tungkulin.
sorry Ellen mas mahaba pa yun comment ko kaysa article mo. pondido na kasi ako sa nababasa ko sa dyaryo at sa internet
tungkol sa nangyayari sa Munti.
From Mitos Villareal:
Nais ko lamang ipahatid sa yo ang aking pangsang-ayon kaugnay ng artikulo mong ang delikadesa ni Diokno sa tingin ni abnoy.
Nakakalungkot na isipin na dahil lamang sa umano’y kusang-loob (sana’y totoo) na pagbibitiw ni G. Dioko sa posisyon ay umani pa iyo ng panghangga kay Pangulong Abnoy. Mukhang nalimutan na ni Pangulong Ngoyngoy ang dahilan kung bakit kailangang magbitiw ni G. Diokno sa posisyon nung unang siya’t kapit tuko.
Sa pangyayari ito, masasabi pa ba nating si Abnoy ay higit na mabuti kay Ate Glo. Hindi. Nakapanliliit at nakaiinsulto ang mga ginagawa at reaksyon ni Abnoy sa mga issue kanyang kinakaharap.
Minsan nakakalungkot isipin kung bakit pa siya ang nanalo? Ang Pilipino kasi napakadaling utuin at paikutin ang ulo. Dahil sa namatay lang ang nanay niyang si Cory, ano’t inihalal kaagad ang kanyang anak na noong una pa man ay walang kakuwenta kuwenta. Ano ba an naging kontribusyon ni Cory sa Pilipinas? Di na ba natanto ng mga botanteng Pilipino ang mga kalaswaan ni Kris Aquino.
This Mitos Villareal is a hypocrite(her name rings a bell). Though she tried very hard to conceal the venom in her diatribes, the ‘abnoy’ tag gave her away. In the process, she unmasked her utter disdain for people with disabilities, not necessarily Aquino. She can always criticize but to call Aquino a ‘retard’ is a low blow. I wonder if she is also in possession of a ‘verified’ psychiatric report.
From Manny Flores in Doha:
Lumiham po ako sa inyo kaugnay sa inyong kolum na “ang delikadesa ni Diokno sa paningin ni Pinoy.”
Bilang taga Muntinlupa kung saan ako ay nagtapos ng kolehiyo sa isang state university na nasa loob mismo ng NBP Compound (Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Muntinlupa). Bilang dating mag-aaral ng nasabing paaralan, halos kahalubilo na namin ang mga preso na may kategoryang living out dahil nakakapagtrabaho na sila at kumikita para sa kanilang pamilya kapag meron silang pwedeng gawing sideline katulad ng pagkakaprpintero sa mga bahay na nasa isang subdibisyon sa loob ng nasabing compoound (katarungan Village) kung saan may bahay din si convicted Romy Jalosjos noong living out na sya doon na siya nakatira sa bahay na kanyang nabili sa katarungan village kung saan palagi na lamang namin napapansin ang maraming mga babae kaming nakikita na pumupunta, ewan kung dumadalaw hehheheh.
Sa mga ordinaryong living out naman, nakasuot sila ng kulay brown na damit na pang preso pero si Jalosjos di nagsusuot at palagi rin namin siyang lumalabas ng compound ng bilibid sakay ng isang tinted na sasakyan.
May mga naging kaklase naman ako na guwardiya ng NBP na malakas sa direktor na nagiging instant businessman katulad na lamang ng tagagawa ng pandesal. Kung sino ang malakas sa direktor sya ang magiging tagasuplay ng pandesal na almusal ng libo libong preso.Ilang libong pandesal ang kinakain sa nasabing kulungan ay ganon din ang pakinabang ng direktor.
Maliban pa sa raket sa inirarasyong sardinas at bigas para sa mga living out. Sa mga de lata naman, ang binibili ng in-charge sa purchase department ay yong malapit ng ma expired at yong mga may damaged na ang lata na nireject na sa mga supermarket kakontak nila dito yong mga suppliers na sa halip itapon na lamang ay binibili pa ng pamunuan ng bilibid sa murang halaga at syang inirarasyon sa mga preso at napatunayan ko ito mismo dahil tatay ng isa kong kaklase ay isang living out dahil malapit ng lumaya at tuwing hapon dala niya ang isang plastic bag na may lamang ilang delata at isang kilong bigas na di mo malaman ang amoy dahil tila luma na rin.
Ganyan katalamak ang korapsyon sa NBP napakasimpleng bagay pero pag naipon ay napakalaking halaga na napupunta sa mga talamak na pinuno ng NBP. Wala na ba talagang katapusan ang korapsyon dyan sa atin na pati preso ay pinagkikitaan.
Statement of Presidential Spokesperson Edwin Lacierda on the release of the fact-finding panel report on BuCor
“We would like to see more of a focus on education and rehabilitation, in partnership with individual citizens and organizations who have quietly, and without fanfare, engaged in education and training efforts for inmates, rather than the spectacular cases of favoritism and exemptions from the rules that have shocked the public.“-Lacierda
Does that mean, the President didn’t find this shocking and alarming and begrudges the press for reporting it?
Sent the question to Secretary Lacierda and he replied:
On the lighter side minsan kahit kunti tila kulang ang mga salita sa ating wikang pambansa. Salitang napakalapit sa katotohanan. Sa ibang bansa, pag nagkamali ang isang tao: to acknowledge the truth, the less educated will say I am sorry I blew it. The miseducated who can accept the truth with remorse will say: I fucked up, man! I am fucked.
This gutter language of a culture reminds the high and mighty in the society to be careful because a few of them are no better than the low life they care for. As long as our language prefers the plastic and hypocrisy and respect and shuns the stinking language of truth, we will always be like sheeps with bowed heads meek to our shepherds who yells: you f..k.ng sinners go forth and sin some more.
On a more serious side of the highly educated, these probably innocent attempts at contortion, distortion and discombobulation of the word policy can be made clearer than mud if we use a country’s democratic governance as paradigm.
The balance of power paradigm manifested in three equal branches of the government are the Legislative, the Executive, and the Judiciary. They, analytically can come in that order because the paradigm calls for laws/policies to be enacted (by the legislature) so the Executive can have something to execute, and (only?) if there are questions and need for clarification and resolution, the judiciary can come in to interpret and resolve the law/policies imbroglio. That could be the governance paradigm.
There is paradigm shift in the parliamentary form when law and policy making is sort of combined with law execution and policy implementation in the executive office of the Prime Minister. There is governance paradigm fucked up if because of greed or corruption, the three branches can happily intrude and make hay into each other’s jurisdiction. Papano kaya sasabihin sa Tagalog yan? But did anybody saw it, the big picture? That the legislative, and the judiciary are not supposed to execute policies, in their own turf they can make a living; in the middle the executive branch may come out the most powerful. But if it is all confused and anything goes, the governance paradigm is fucked.
Sori Ellen, gusto ko ipakita lang na meron mas mataas na baitang sa katwirang hindi puedeng baluktutin tungkol sa kalakaran (policy, written or unwritten) sa mga oficina ng gobierno.
Let’s Move On with a clear conscience.
In the ultimate and final analysis I commiserate with the resigned director who very likely in all his life had strive for a life that’s balanced as a good Christian. Had he failed in such morally hostile environment he would not have climbed the clouds where it is cold and the oxygen thinner. When our time comes, Before St. Peter’s sala, there’s hell (down there) to pay, only if there’s a hell of mistake done to others. And that makes P Noy a scared pit bull, he (perhaps like his Mom) doesn’t want to injudiciously or indiscriminately bite trespassers, because innocent others might hemorrhage. Whether it’s good or bad for the country, only time probably can tell.
However, We can not and won’t be moving on UNLESS, we make the culprits in the penitentiary join their wards behind bars.
Noooooooh!!! Is Pnoy even considering giving Joke-no another position?! When a person is already tainted,nasubukan na pero walang binatbat, forget him na dapat! Magkakalat din ang mga taong ganyan kahit saan ilagay ni Pnoy.
Agree with you, Chi. Ano ba ito, revolving-door policy na naman ? This is reminiscent of that diminutive fart, Gloria. Really, wala na ba tayong mga MAS magagaling na pagpipilian ? I hope Noy would not make this mistake (among the countless mistakes he has done so far). Oo nga’t lahat tayo nagkakamali. But please, PNoy, do not abuse this “provelege” (of commiting one mistake after another).
jawo, does ‘provelege” apply to all the gurls he loved before? Teka, baka yung mga gurls were the ones who committed mistakes by loving him. Hehehehehehe!!!
From Pedro Dionisio:
Ako po ay 71 years old na ngayon at nasubaybayan ko ang political career at panunungkulan ng mga magulang ni Pnoy.
Sa aking obserbasyon ay malalim ang pananaw ng kanyang mga magulang sa kahulugan ng “Delikadesa”.
Ang kanyan ama na si Ninoy kahit na binigyan ng pagkakataon ng self exile kapalit ng kalayaan sa kulungan, dahilan sa Delikadesa ay naninindigan siya taliwas sa pananaw ng nasa kapangyarihan noon, ay pinili pa ang mabilanggo at mahatulan ng firing squad.
Sana magkaroon ng discernment si Pnoy na dahilan sa mga taong naniwala sa prinsipyo at paninindigan ng kanyang mga magulang kung kaya siya naluklok bilang Pangulo ng bansa.
Sana makita niya ang tunay na kahulugan ng tuwid na landas na ating tatahakin sa panahon ng kanyang panunungkulan.